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Alan Levine reflects on his experience attending an online seminar: “I recently felt like this wistful gal during a recent online seminar- isolated, lonely, and wishing to go outside and play. With nose-diving budgets and more work moving online, it’s time to raise the bar on how we run online events.
Like a horrendously designed PowerPoint, no one sets out with a plan of creating a deadly dull online seminar, but they seem to happen often enough.”
The move to online meetings parallels the experiences I had in the late 90′s/early 00′s with teaching online. The initial assumption is “no problem, I know my stuff. I can teach this online”. But, the online medium is different from face-to-face – different orientation points, cues, distractions, etc. As with teaching and learning, the goal is to transform the experience for the environment, not merely transfer it.
On a side note, Alan delivered an exceptional presentation at ED-MEDIA a few weeks ago on 50+ web 2.0 ways to tell a story. He used Cooliris as the presentation tool -visual and effective.